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Fintech

An Interdisciplinary Approach to Fintech  Financial technology (“Fintech”) continues to make new financial products and services available, while upending old rules. Regulators and market participants face challenges in understanding and balancing...
Drawing of people using Fintech
News

Detroit Neighborhood Entrepreneurs Project Courses

Nov 18, 2022
Each semester, the CFLP’s Detroit Neighborhood Entrepreneurs Project recruits hundreds of Detroit small businesses to work with U-M students in course-long projects that address business’ legal, financial, operational, marketing, or design challenges...
DNEP classroom
News

Community Tech Workers seeking small business clients

Sep 19, 2022
Above: Detroit Center's Leeah Allen (center) participates in a role playing practice session with Danielle Basemore-Taylor (LSA) (left) and Casey Stoneback (Information) (right). With assistance from Detroit Center staff members Feodies Shipp III...
Dani and Casey with Client
News

28 business owners begin marketing projects with U-M students

Sep 19, 2022
A new cohort of businesses, mostly from Detroit’s east side, began work with U-M Ross students in Prof. Amy Angell’s marketing class, Consumer Behavior, this month. Businesses include restaurants, a mobile grocery store, retailers, a local farm/compo...
Aaron Jackson and Amy Angell presenting
CFLP Update

Big data conference registration now available

Aug 9, 2016
Online registration is now available for the University of Michigan’s Center on Finance, Law and Policy’s second annual conference with the federal Office of Financial Research. This year’s theme, “Big Data: Improving the Scope, Quality, and Accessib...
Ford School
CFLP Update

White paper: challenges and opportunities with big data

Aug 5, 2016
University of Michigan’s Bernard A. Galler Collegiate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, H.V. Jagadish recently coordinated the publication of a white paper on the research challenges posed by big data.  …"While the promi...
Ford School
Big Data in Finance

Highlights from the Big Data in Finance Conference

October 28, 2016
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Michael S. Barr, Brian Koziara, Alfred Hero, H.V. Jagadish
How can financial data be made more accessible and more secure, as well as more useful to regulators, market participants, and the public? As new data sets are created, opportunities emerge. Vast quantities of financial data may help identify emergin...
Financial Inclusion

Central Bank of the Future

December 2018 - June 2021
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Michael S. Barr, Adrienne A. Harris
In partnership with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, this project explores the mandate and design of central banks to consider whether they might play an even stronger role in promoting financial inclusion, financial health, and a more inclusive economy.
Central bank of the future

Big Data: Panel 4 - Data Sharing and Transparency (Day 2)

Oct 28, 2016 1:35:32
With appropriate privacy safeguards, enhanced financial data sharing could improve market discipline, augment consumer protection, and unlock new opportunities for research. To that end, could regulatory agencies set up “clean rooms” to share anonymi...
Big Data: Panel 4 - Data Sharing and Transparency (Day 2)

Big Data: Panel 5 - Data Modeling and Analytics (Day 2)

Oct 28, 2016 1:29:20
What is the future of financial data modeling and analytics? This panel explores cutting-edge techniques including agent-based modeling, machine learning, textual extraction and computational representation, and predictive analytics, and explores pot...
Big Data: Panel 5 - Data Modeling and Analytics (Day 2)

Big Data: Panel 6 - Data Integration and Visualization (Day 2)

Oct 28, 2016 1:29:22
What are the most significant barriers data scientists face in integrating and reconciling various types and sources of data, including issues of standards, unique identity, ownership, and semantic translation? How should users efficiently and effect...
Big Data: Panel 6 - Data Integration and Visualization (Day 2)